politics

Point/Counterpoint

Foster Lyle, staff Take any finance course and you will hear that a free market is an efficient market. A free market is one where…


Point/Counterpoint

Katerina Tefft, staff Free-market capitalism, as economist Karl Polanyi famously writes in The Great Transformation, is a “stark utopia” that “could not exist for any…


Polling stations in new places

This year will mark the first UMSU general election for which polling stations are available at certain locations across the University of Manitoba’s Fort Garry…


Silence is not a solution

Caleigh MacDonald, staff The federal government’s proposed Fair Elections Act has been controversial with voters in Canada who feel the system’s overhaul is both unfair…






Kevin O’Really?

Michael Lee “…Really?” I’m sure many of you shared with Amanda Lang that same exasperated reaction upon hearing Kevin O’Leary’s perplexing comments on the Lang…


Wind Mobile backs out of spectrum bid

Last week telecommunications firm Wind Mobile dropped out of a spectrum auction after VimpelCom Ltd., its Dutch parent company, withdrew financial support for the bid….